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Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. MORE

Build community through social technologies for learning. Implement a social media strategy as part of a learning experience. Use socialnetworking applications and services to build groups with a common interest or goal. Sharing knowledge and experience through informal networks is a motivating and natural way to learn. 10 Social Media Tools For Learning. MORE

Social Media. Social media technologies are exploding, providing an array of offerings for learning online. The prevalence of socialnetworking, real-time search and discussion, and collaborative technologies increase the opportunities for informal and unstructured learning and can enhance structured learning strategies as well. Share this on Linkedin. Netbooks. MORE

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. 2002) The Network Society. tools. MORE

So too are our personal learning networks. Such systems are woefully inadequate to meet our personal knowledge needs in this fast-paced network era. Sharing knowledge, using any number of media that fit our personal needs, work styles, and professional socialnetworks. This is where our personal learning networks (PLNs) become extremely valuable. tomspiglani n. MORE

Keep me in touch with colleagues and associates in other companies, as on LinkedIn. Show me what others are interested in, as with socialbookmarks like Diigo and Delicious. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network. It’s a both a discipline and a living book. Conclusion. MORE

What can you expect (from their own introduction): Sponsored by Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild, from September 29 through November 7, 2008, this network will be THE place for you to learn about Web 2.0 and how social media tools can be used by learning professionals. but Soulsoup twittered me on a course that will focus on Web2.0 tools for learning. MORE

and the rapid rise of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other communications platforms have made one thing abundantly clear: Everything is social. As the workforce grows to include more Millennials – digital natives who spend nearly four hours per day on socialnetworking sites – the social impact on training cannot be overstated. According to a 2011 ASTD report , social media enables learning by providing platforms for people to exchange information, facilitating communication, personalizing the learning experience, and supporting informal learning. MORE

This week we looked at SocialNetworks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around socialnetworks for learning. Starting with SocialNetworking was a blessing and a curse. Socialnetworks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in socialnetworks. How do we do this in the socialnetwork environment? Maybe this is partly design, but it's also how conversation, content spread across socialnetworks. MORE

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network. MORE

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just socialnetworking. hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. MORE

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My SocialNetworks « "A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms" (Andrew McAfee) | Main | The Pentagon Channel - Embracing Video Big Time » September 01, 2007 "Object-Centered Sociality" or What is Really at the Heart of SocialNetworks I couldve sworn I had posted about this before but I cant find it.but talk about old.the spur for this post is from 2005! Theyre not; socialnetworks consist of people who are connected by a shared object." MORE

Not surprising, the terms most closely associated with Adoption are Adoption of Social Software and Adoption of Enterprise 2.0. There are some great resources on this such as: Ten tips for choosing & using social software Adoption of Web 2.0 Revisited Social Media - The Challenge of Adoption - Rob’s Dummies Guide The secret sauce to successful Enterprise 2.0 Web 2.0 MORE

I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. The article tells us that various players are adding socialnetworking features to their sites: A broad array of online players, from major media companies like Viacom to e-commerce providers such as eBay, are adding networking features to their online destinations, letting users create detailed Web identities, connect with people over common interests, share content, and, above all, socialize. how is this new? sort of agree. MORE

Through discussion boards, social media, virtual collaborations, and so on, learners develop their own personal learning networks that last long after the course is over. These networks, which may contain fellow learners, trainers, and even experts in the field, remain accessible via Twitter and other socialnetworking sites and provide additional places employees can turn for answers to questions and solutions to problems. MOOCs are built on a philosophy of sharing, and by encouraging learners to create and share resources—via socialbookmarking sites (e.g., MORE

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. SocialBookmarking. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. What makes it social is that, with the right permissions, individuals on the network can view all of the tagged articles and blog entries and see which were tagged the most. SocialNetwork. LinkedIn. MORE

MOOC), or gearing up for a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the selection of meaning social media tools. In order to get an overview of the big families in social media, I started to make a list for my own comprehension and future selection. If you see that I have missed a group or set of social media tools, feel free to let me know. Social Media Tool Why use it + implementation Example with possible extra Idea and content sharing Microblogging Twitter allows the learner group to share short messages with one another, linking it to more content. Video (e.g. MORE

Examples of Different Types of E-Learning Aggregator (here is an example of an RSS Aggregator) Training Blogs Three-Dimensional Worlds Second Life ProtoSphere Active Worlds There SocialNetworkingLinkedIn MySpace Facebook SocialBookmarkingdel.icio.us Here are some links to blog postings I've done related to the topic and other related links. These postings and links support the presentation and provide additional information on the topic of "Tools for Transferring Know How." MORE

10 online tools in the backpack of every trainer and facilitator Twitter - microblogging Diigo - or any other socialbookmarking service LinkedIn - for networking and groups Padlet - a brainstorm wall Youtube - search and make your own channel/playlists Yammer - and other smart tools to create private conversation groups Screencast-o-matic - and other screencasting tools Bigmarker - webinar tool for free Google - and Google plus Ning - or another paid online platform/LMS Do you know and work with the tools mentioned? An alternative to this bookmark tool is delicious. MORE

There are many plugins available that can help with this, I’ve used some in the past but the one I’m currently ‘liking’ is ShareThis : “Increase your audience engagement with our innovative sharing tools … the plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ socialnetworks including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Pinterest. MORE

LinkedIn is a useful professional tool. As Donald notes, sharing and posting on social media are weaker forms of learning than longer form blogging can be. Using social media for learning requires an understanding of how each tool or platform can support your own sense-making. archive with Diigo socialbookmarks. It means being social in our work. Imagery. MORE

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Category: SocialNetworking Platform. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. Share this on Linkedin Tweet This! MORE

These are Blogs, wikis and tagging with the emphasis on socialbookmarking. learning network i am attempting to use the web 2.0 technology that fosters and encourages 'socialnetworking'. SocialNetworking The most obvious examples of SocialNetworking sites are ' facebook ' and ' myspace ' and both are quite obviously about socializing. MORE

Main | IBM DeveloperWorks Podcast Series » January 23, 2007 SocialBookmarking. Here are some reviews of socialbookmarking services which may help you solve this dilemma. IT Redux: Bookmarks Roundup Just yesterday IBM announced a new entry into this field: Lotus Connections. If my ldap/ad profile shows *dynamic* information about my interests, tagging, bookmarking, etc. Bookmarking/tagging are ideal for this role. Social) bookmarking is as old as the browser itself. Now or Never?? The biggest complaint I hear in this arena. MORE

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, SocialBookmarking, SocialNetworking or Collaboration Tools? IBM I only briefly mentioned how other organizations are adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - socialnetworking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. DogEar â€“ SocialBookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Provide the content. MORE

frequently use Flickr and LinkedIn search add ons installed on my Firefox. SocialNetworks – I use Facebook as my main socialnetworking environment and it’s been great. It has been a great source for getting help from my socialnetwork. I am also beginning to utilize LinkedIn Answer, though the usage is still low. SocialBookmarking – I had del.icio.us on my list the last time, however I hardly use visit it to view other people’s bookmarks. Here are my top 10 tools for learning in Aug 2008. MORE

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. With the exception of crowdsourcing, all other social media types can be used in social learning. SocialBookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.usSocialNetwork Aggregator - Netvibes. Social E-Mail - Google Buzz. Social Professional Networks - LinkedIn. MORE

SocialBookmarks. Perhaps the simplest way to start sharing organisational knowledge is with socialbookmarks. Many people still have their list of Bookmarks/Favourites in their web browser, but when they’re not at their computer these links aren’t accessible. Enter the socialbookmark. An example of an OS socialbookmarking application is Ma.gnolia. MORE

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, socialbookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via socialnetworking). Nancy raises the question of the fact that traditional online communities were bounded by the tool and the new big network is not contained within the tool. have met other people through LinkedIn and illumio by being on either side of requests. tools. MORE

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just socialnetworking. hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct. MORE

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. eLearning Coach: You were an early adopter of using social technologies for learning purposes. MORE

People learn socially. Together, these processes look like this: These internal and external activities are a way of moving from implicit to explicit knowledge by observing, reflecting and then putting tentative thoughts out to our networks. Not only that, it may be our social responsibility to be contributors to our common knowledge. Social. Bookmarks. Social. MORE

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I've run across a couple of interesting posts recently that seem to have spawned from a Business Week article - Scaling the Social Web. The article tells us that various players are adding socialnetworking features to their sites: A broad array of online players, from major media companies like Viacom to e-commerce providers such as eBay, are adding networking features to their online destinations, letting users create detailed Web identities, connect with people over common interests, share content, and, above all, socialize. how is this new? sort of agree.

There are many plugins available that can help with this, I’ve used some in the past but the one I’m currently ‘liking’ is ShareThis : “Increase your audience engagement with our innovative sharing tools … the plugin allows users to share your content through email and 50+ socialnetworks including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, and Pinterest.

Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Almost everyone, it seems, is using some element of social media in the planning, development, delivery, management or evaluation of teaching and learning. 2002) The Network Society. tools.

These are Blogs, wikis and tagging with the emphasis on socialbookmarking. learning network i am attempting to use the web 2.0 technology that fosters and encourages 'socialnetworking'. SocialNetworking The most obvious examples of SocialNetworking sites are ' facebook ' and ' myspace ' and both are quite obviously about socializing.

This week we looked at SocialNetworks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around socialnetworks for learning. Starting with SocialNetworking was a blessing and a curse. Socialnetworks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in socialnetworks. How do we do this in the socialnetwork environment? Maybe this is partly design, but it's also how conversation, content spread across socialnetworks.

10 online tools in the backpack of every trainer and facilitator Twitter - microblogging Diigo - or any other socialbookmarking service LinkedIn - for networking and groups Padlet - a brainstorm wall Youtube - search and make your own channel/playlists Yammer - and other smart tools to create private conversation groups Screencast-o-matic - and other screencasting tools Bigmarker - webinar tool for free Google - and Google plus Ning - or another paid online platform/LMS Do you know and work with the tools mentioned? An alternative to this bookmark tool is delicious.

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

MOOC), or gearing up for a Personal Learning Network (PLN) is the selection of meaning social media tools. In order to get an overview of the big families in social media, I started to make a list for my own comprehension and future selection. If you see that I have missed a group or set of social media tools, feel free to let me know. Social Media Tool Why use it + implementation Example with possible extra Idea and content sharing Microblogging Twitter allows the learner group to share short messages with one another, linking it to more content. Video (e.g.

frequently use Flickr and LinkedIn search add ons installed on my Firefox. SocialNetworks – I use Facebook as my main socialnetworking environment and it’s been great. It has been a great source for getting help from my socialnetwork. I am also beginning to utilize LinkedIn Answer, though the usage is still low. SocialBookmarking – I had del.icio.us on my list the last time, however I hardly use visit it to view other people’s bookmarks. Here are my top 10 tools for learning in Aug 2008.

So too are our personal learning networks. Such systems are woefully inadequate to meet our personal knowledge needs in this fast-paced network era. Sharing knowledge, using any number of media that fit our personal needs, work styles, and professional socialnetworks. This is where our personal learning networks (PLNs) become extremely valuable. tomspiglani n.

This week we looked at SocialNetworks. Here are some thoughts on this topic, especially thoughts around socialnetworks for learning. Starting with SocialNetworking was a blessing and a curse. Socialnetworks have a tendency to be a bit messy. Virginia Yonkers told us - I would like to know how to manage the information flows in socialnetworks. How do we do this in the socialnetwork environment? Maybe this is partly design, but it's also how conversation, content spread across socialnetworks.

10 online tools in the backpack of every trainer and facilitator Twitter - microblogging Diigo - or any other socialbookmarking service LinkedIn - for networking and groups Padlet - a brainstorm wall Youtube - search and make your own channel/playlists Yammer - and other smart tools to create private conversation groups Screencast-o-matic - and other screencasting tools Bigmarker - webinar tool for free Google - and Google plus Ning - or another paid online platform/LMS Do you know and work with the tools mentioned? An alternative to this bookmark tool is delicious.

Her topic– personal learning networks, also known as PLNs. Here is a way for people to turn their interest in lifelong, independent learning AND social connections into a way of life. It took 40 years, but with the invention of the Internet and social media tools, Licklider & Taylor’s predication has come true. An Educator’s Professional Learning Network.

LinkedIn is a useful professional tool. As Donald notes, sharing and posting on social media are weaker forms of learning than longer form blogging can be. Using social media for learning requires an understanding of how each tool or platform can support your own sense-making. archive with Diigo socialbookmarks. It means being social in our work. Imagery.

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My SocialNetworks « "A Technology Flip Test: Introducing Channels in a World of Platforms" (Andrew McAfee) | Main | The Pentagon Channel - Embracing Video Big Time » September 01, 2007 "Object-Centered Sociality" or What is Really at the Heart of SocialNetworks I couldve sworn I had posted about this before but I cant find it.but talk about old.the spur for this post is from 2005! Theyre not; socialnetworks consist of people who are connected by a shared object."

Here is a table with some tools for social learning, short description of the tool, the best use for social learning for the tool and some examples. SocialBookmarking. The ability of someone within an Intranet or Internet to mark or tag a blog entry, a link or an article within the network as important or interesting to them. What makes it social is that, with the right permissions, individuals on the network can view all of the tagged articles and blog entries and see which were tagged the most. SocialNetwork. LinkedIn.

Keep me in touch with colleagues and associates in other companies, as on LinkedIn. Show me what others are interested in, as with socialbookmarks like Diigo and Delicious. link to your blog and bookmarks, people in your network, links to documents you frequently share, members of your network. It’s a both a discipline and a living book. Conclusion.

Main | IBM DeveloperWorks Podcast Series » January 23, 2007 SocialBookmarking. Here are some reviews of socialbookmarking services which may help you solve this dilemma. IT Redux: Bookmarks Roundup Just yesterday IBM announced a new entry into this field: Lotus Connections. If my ldap/ad profile shows *dynamic* information about my interests, tagging, bookmarking, etc. Bookmarking/tagging are ideal for this role. Social) bookmarking is as old as the browser itself. Now or Never?? The biggest complaint I hear in this arena.

Do you have a training or information need that could benefit from a social media strategy? So here are descriptions of ten applications representing different social media technologies that promote learning. Category: SocialNetworking Platform. Elgg is an aggregate of many social media technologies in one platform. Share this on Linkedin Tweet This!

SocialBookmarks. Perhaps the simplest way to start sharing organisational knowledge is with socialbookmarks. Many people still have their list of Bookmarks/Favourites in their web browser, but when they’re not at their computer these links aren’t accessible. Enter the socialbookmark. An example of an OS socialbookmarking application is Ma.gnolia.

In this article, I’m featuring a wonderful interview with successful social media expert, Jane Hart. She provides compelling reasons to implement a social and collaborative environment as part of workplace learning. You can read more from Jane at her blog, Social Media in Learning. eLearning Coach: You were an early adopter of using social technologies for learning purposes.

Build community through social technologies for learning. Implement a social media strategy as part of a learning experience. Use socialnetworking applications and services to build groups with a common interest or goal. Sharing knowledge and experience through informal networks is a motivating and natural way to learn. 10 Social Media Tools For Learning.

Through discussion boards, social media, virtual collaborations, and so on, learners develop their own personal learning networks that last long after the course is over. These networks, which may contain fellow learners, trainers, and even experts in the field, remain accessible via Twitter and other socialnetworking sites and provide additional places employees can turn for answers to questions and solutions to problems. MOOCs are built on a philosophy of sharing, and by encouraging learners to create and share resources—via socialbookmarking sites (e.g.,

Not surprising, the terms most closely associated with Adoption are Adoption of Social Software and Adoption of Enterprise 2.0. There are some great resources on this such as: Ten tips for choosing & using social software Adoption of Web 2.0 Revisited Social Media - The Challenge of Adoption - Rob’s Dummies Guide The secret sauce to successful Enterprise 2.0 Web 2.0

Examples of Different Types of E-Learning Aggregator (here is an example of an RSS Aggregator) Training Blogs Three-Dimensional Worlds Second Life ProtoSphere Active Worlds There SocialNetworkingLinkedIn MySpace Facebook SocialBookmarkingdel.icio.us Here are some links to blog postings I've done related to the topic and other related links. These postings and links support the presentation and provide additional information on the topic of "Tools for Transferring Know How."

Social media types with examples. New social media types are being created, identified and defined constantly. Bi-weekly updates, which can be found on the “Social Media Page under my Essentials section, that debuts on Monday. With the exception of crowdsourcing, all other social media types can be used in social learning. SocialBookmarking – Delicious - spelled often as del.icio.usSocialNetwork Aggregator - Netvibes. Social E-Mail - Google Buzz. Social Professional Networks - LinkedIn.

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just socialnetworking. hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct.

People learn socially. Together, these processes look like this: These internal and external activities are a way of moving from implicit to explicit knowledge by observing, reflecting and then putting tentative thoughts out to our networks. Not only that, it may be our social responsibility to be contributors to our common knowledge. Social. Bookmarks. Social.

You have probably been bombarded with lots of social learning surveys over the past few weeks. But to understand the topic, you first have to understand the basics – social media. Because without it, you cannot have social learning. In order for social learning to exist you need to have the following: social media plus e-learning. And, let us clear up another point: social learning is not just socialnetworking. hate when people see it as only Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin. Here is the latest data on social media (as of Oct.

Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, SocialBookmarking, SocialNetworking or Collaboration Tools? IBM I only briefly mentioned how other organizations are adopting these tools in a big way - The Wall Street Journal - June 18 2007 - socialnetworking at IBM 26,000 registered blogs. DogEar â€“ SocialBookmarking BluePages - employee-controlled profiles of 400,000 employees Daily online newsletter called w3. It could just as easily have been called Web 2.0 Provide the content.

What can you expect (from their own introduction): Sponsored by Work Literacy and the eLearning Guild, from September 29 through November 7, 2008, this network will be THE place for you to learn about Web 2.0 and how social media tools can be used by learning professionals. but Soulsoup twittered me on a course that will focus on Web2.0 tools for learning.

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, socialbookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) This forms a big network of people linked first through content and eventually directly (in person or via socialnetworking). Nancy raises the question of the fact that traditional online communities were bounded by the tool and the new big network is not contained within the tool. have met other people through LinkedIn and illumio by being on either side of requests. tools.

and the rapid rise of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other communications platforms have made one thing abundantly clear: Everything is social. As the workforce grows to include more Millennials – digital natives who spend nearly four hours per day on socialnetworking sites – the social impact on training cannot be overstated. According to a 2011 ASTD report , social media enables learning by providing platforms for people to exchange information, facilitating communication, personalizing the learning experience, and supporting informal learning.

Social Media. Social media technologies are exploding, providing an array of offerings for learning online. The prevalence of socialnetworking, real-time search and discussion, and collaborative technologies increase the opportunities for informal and unstructured learning and can enhance structured learning strategies as well. Share this on Linkedin. Netbooks.